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| 正面描述 | The obverse is engraved in a mid-19th century American bank note style, with a central vignette of St. George on horseback slaying the dragon, rendered in fine intaglio. Large numeral '5' counters appear in each corner, flanked by lathework guilloche medallions bearing the word 'FIVE'. A portrait vignette of a male figure in period dress occupies the lower left, and the issuer's name 'CENTRAL BANK OF NEW-BRUNSWICK' is set in bold letterpress across the centre, with the promise-to-pay text and place of issue 'FREDERICTON' below, accompanied by manuscript signatures and date. |
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| 正面铭文 | FIVE 5 CENTRAL BANK OF NEW-BRUNSWICK FIVE POUNDS FREDERICTON The President Directors and Company of the Central Bank of New-Brunswick promise to pay out of the Joint Fund of the Corporation Cash. Prest. |
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The Central Bank of New Brunswick was a short-lived institution, chartered in 1834 and operating out of Fredericton at a time when the province still had no unified currency — British sterling, American dollars, and local paper all circulated simultaneously at shifting exchange rates. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, the New York firm responsible for this note, were among the most technically accomplished security printers in North America at the time, later absorbed into the American Bank Note Company in 1858.
New Brunswick did not join Confederation until 1867, and provincial bank notes like this one remained legal tender in the territory well into the transition period. The Central Bank itself folded before that transition, making the full issuance window for this series narrower in practice than the 1851–1857 date range suggests.